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A Concise History of the Prisoners' Rights Movement: An Epic Struggle for Human Dignity Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. Historian's maxim. After visiting Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary in 1842 Charles Dickens wrote, "The system is rigid, strict and hopeless...and I believe it to be cruel and wrong....I hold this slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the [mind] to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body." Eastern State ...

Are You Just as Guilty... For Ignoring Americas Prison Conditions? By Lennox Armstrong-El My name is Lennox Armstrong- El. I'm a prisoner in a level 1-2 facility in Virginia. This is my first time in prison. The following is an account of my experiences since I entered the Department of Corrections in 2012. My word count is limited so I'll stick to the facts without the fluff. It is my hope that the title of this work gets your attention. Because if you have turned a blind eye to Am...

Dead Man Copyright 2017 Eric Pepke All Rights Reserved Rights offered: First publication, print and/or electronic Foreword This is the first of a trilogy of essays collectively called "A Tale of Three Copies." The other two are "The Grievance" and "The Letter." Each is the story of a single photocopy. They constitute three threads through an extremely complex story of my experience in jail and prison. I eventually may publish these as part of a book. Pepke Dead M...

6/23/2017 Different Prison, Same Old Abuse (Part 1) I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru Different Prison, Same Old Abuse (Part 1) 13 Monday Dec 2016 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN WRITINGS FROM UH; 1RU -« LEAVE A COMMENT Tags lockdown, raid, Shakedown, Uhuru B. Rowe By Uhuru B. Rowe November 22, 2016 e—mail: uhururowe76@yahoo.com I couldn't believe was I was seeing. I was bearing witness to the most horrible sight one could imagine. On 11 / O9 / 16 at approximately 6...

6/23/2017 Different prison, same old abuse (Part 2) I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru Different prison, same old abuse (Part 2) z_()_ Tuesday Dec 2016 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN UNCATEGORIZED = LEAVE A COMMENT Tags Behavior modiﬁcation, group punishment, lockdown, racism, raid, Shakedown, Uhuru B. Rowe Part #2 Behavior modiﬁcation- made famous by psychologists like B.F. Skinner and John B. Watson- is deﬁned as a form of psychotherapy that is concerned with the treat...

Azeem Shakur Majeed Keen Mountain Correctional Center Dying in a Concrete Garden of Life Why kill the rose before it gets the chance to grow? The rose didn’t choose to be cultivated in a hostile and non-hospitable environment…Where proper nourishing was almost an impossible feat to accomplish. The rose began growing wildly, with thorns, and rough edges because it adapted to and adopted the characteristics and qualities of the blighted soil and dilapidated environmental circumstances around hi...

Essay of Federal Bureau of Prisons by an Incarcerated American. Beginning around 2008, I was wrongfully convicted following a jury trial, denied effective defense, access to Brady material and all defense trial witnesses, among other Justice Administration violations. Due to the refusal to accept the Government's attempt to coerce a plea agreement, resulting in two case dismissals. and the cost and effort of jury trial, I receive a retaliatory prison sentence and assignment to a dangerou...

FROM UNITY TO COLLECTIVE L I B E R A T I O N An Essay by Brian L . Rowe Just recently I finished studying a book I purchased from PM Press e n t i t l e d , "Towards Collective L i b e r a t i o n " , w r i t t e n by Chris C r a s s , an anti-racist white activist who played a major role in the p o l i t i c a l development of San Francisco Food Not B o m b s , The Catalyst P r o j e c t , and Colours of Resistance around an a n t i - r a c i s t , m u l t i - r a c i a l organizin...

By Vines, Calvin J. I kind of dont know what to say, or I dont know how to say what I want to say, or maybe I simply just dont know where to start. I mean, I feel so bitter and mad and helpless and stupid and hurt and rageful and confused and crazy and scared and ashamed and lonely that its troubling because I feel this way all the time. All the fucking time. My brain wont stop, my emotions wont stop, and my release date is nowhere in sight. Pretty safe to say that Im a depresed person, which...

6/23/2017 ‘ Life At Sussex 2 State Prison I Conscious Prisoner Conscious Prisoner~ The Evolution of Uhuru Life At Sussex 2 State Prison 2;; Tuesday Dec 2016 POSTED BY BOBDYLAN14 IN WRITINGS FROM UHURU z LEAVE A COMMENT Tags Mumia Abu-lamal, September 9th, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, sussex two state prison, Uhuru B. Rowe By Uhuru B. Rowe December 12, 2016 e-mail: uhururowe76@yahoo.com Its been 95 days since I was transferred to Sussex 2 State Prison, which opened in 1998 to house what the stat...

No Slavery - No Exceptions! by Douglas Ankney Most people are proud of their country. Americans are no exception. Our nation declared "All men are created equal..." But when the Constitution was written, it became law that only all white men are created equal; african men counted only as 1/3 human, while women and Native Americans (Indians) did not count at all. Americans are proud of their country. Over time the people - yes the people - determined to correct this repugnant hypocri...